( 8% ) 
SILIQUOSE. 
ERYSIMUM OFFICINALE. ” HEDGE MUSTARD, 
SYNONYM4A. Eryfimum, Pharm. Geof. iti. 444. Dale. 204. 
 Alfton. ti. 135. Lewis. 289. Cullen. ii. 166. Edinb. New Di/p. 
186. Murray. ii. 315.  Bergius. 561, Hall. 478. Eryfimum 
vulgare. Bau. Pin. 100. Eryfimum Diofcoridis Lobelij. Ger. 
Emac. 254. Itio five Eryfimum vulgare. Park. Theat. 8338 
Eruca filiqua cauli apprefla, Eryfimum di@a. Ray. ‘Hiff, 810, 
Synop. 298. .Eryfimum officinale. Hudfon. Ang. 286. Wither. 
Bot. Arr. 695. Ie. Flor. Dan. 560, Curt. Flor. Lond, — 
Tetradynamia Siliquofa. Liz. Gen. Plant. 814. 
Gen. Ch. Siliqua columnaris, exact tetraédra. Cal, claufus. 
Sp. Ch.  E. filiquis fpicze adpreffis, foliis runcinatis. 
ROOT annual, tapering, furnithed with long fibres. Stalk from 
one to two feet in height, ered, round,’ branched; hairy. Leaves 
on footftalks, rough, downy, pinnatifid fegments, oppofite, ovate, 
toothed, terminal one the largeft.. Flowers yellow, fmall, placed in 
long racemi or fpikes. Calyx of four leafits, which are ovate, nar- 
row, blunt, hairy. Corolla compofed of four petals, placed oppo- 
fitely, inverfely ovate, ftanding upon long claws. Filaments {ix, 
SPeHps two of which are fhorter than the others, and having at 
the bafe two ne@tarious glands. Antherez heart-fhaped. Germen 
cylindrical, ftriated. Stigma roundifh, compreffed, notched. Pods 
neatly conical, obfcurely quadrangular, hairy, prefled to the ftalk. 
Seeds of a dingy yellow colour, obliquely truncated at each end. 
It 
